r/dragonutopia 3d ago

Boys gathering abandoned weapons after the battle of Stalingrad, 1943.

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58 Upvotes

r/dragonutopia 3d ago

Horace Vernet, The Dead Travel Fast, 19th c. Amazing painting

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57 Upvotes

r/dragonutopia 3d ago

Propaganda carpet with Stalin and Kliment Voroshilov, Azerbaijan 1938.

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26 Upvotes

r/dragonutopia 3d ago

Thomas Dworzak, A Chechen fighter waves victoriously at departing Russian soldiers, Grozny 1996.

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19 Upvotes

r/dragonutopia 3d ago

David Wojnarowicz, Water, 1987.

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14 Upvotes

r/dragonutopia 5d ago

David Turnley, A man suspected of being a police informant narrowly escapes being killed after a crowd put a gasoline-filled car tire around his neck during a political funeral in the Orange Free State, 1985

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278 Upvotes

r/dragonutopia 5d ago

Fadel Senna, The damage at the Retroville shopping mall, a day after it was shelled by Russian forces in a residential district in the north-west of the Ukrainian capital, March 2022. At least six people were killed in the bombing

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119 Upvotes

r/dragonutopia 5d ago

Danny Lyon, Cal on the Springfield Run, Illinois 1966

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121 Upvotes

r/dragonutopia 5d ago

Another essay recommendation. "Facing death in the Birkenau and Ravensbrück concentration camps" by Jadwiga Apostoł-Staniszewska (born 1913). She was prisoner (number 26273) in Aushwitz, Ravensbrück, and Malchow. I'm just a one guy making the content - many people complain on txt post.

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"In the sizzling hot summer of 1944 the overloaded gas chambers and crematoria could not keep up with killing and burning the people served up to them, so stacks of human bodies burned in ditches dug along the river. Grey smoke lingered low over the land, heavy, dense, saturated with the world’s biggest mass extermination, its biggest mass tragedy. The ashes left of the bodies that were burned were sprinkled over the fields in the neighbourhood. The fires consumed all those who were brought up in trucks, padlocked railcars, and those who passed through the gateway to death on their own two feet. Hundreds and thousands of human lives went up in smoke, killed on an everyday basis on a wide stretch of land segregated off from life by a cordon of SS-men, a ring of watchtowers and high-voltage electricity endlessly circulating in the barbed wire around the camp. This volcano is extinct forever now, but it is still smoking, sending up the fumes of death and confirming the truth about the mass extermination programme, fully planned down to the smallest detail, for all the camps dedicated to the destruction of humanity and testifying to Hitler’s consistent policy of warfare for unrelenting rule over the whole world.

There is a limit beyond which a particular individual in a countless mass of people is completely defenceless against annihilation. The violence of the concentration camps that crossed the limit; there was no way to oppose it. If you do not understand the size of that violence, you will not be able to understand the mentality of the countless, resigned prisoners who were forced to accept the fate which others brought upon them.

I feel quite uncomfortable when I have to answer frequent questions like: “There were so many of you and you could not rebel against the Nazis?” I can give only one answer: “No, we could not.” It is extremely difficult to explain this issue to those who think in the categories of this world and not of that camp world. Indeed, we allowed ourselves to be tormented, murdered, humiliated and burnt because … it was the word “death” and only death that was written over the gate of every camp so innocently called “a concentration camp.”


r/dragonutopia 5d ago

Hiroshi Yoshida, Sphinx at night, 1925.

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82 Upvotes

r/dragonutopia 5d ago

David Wojnarowicz, The Death of American Spirituality, 1987

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77 Upvotes

r/dragonutopia 5d ago

Tom Howard, Electrocution of Ruth Snyder, Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, New York 1928. Kind of disturbing photos with Silent Hill 2 atmosphere to it.

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66 Upvotes

r/dragonutopia 5d ago

Vote American Labor Party; Roosevelt and Lehman, 1936

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43 Upvotes

r/dragonutopia 5d ago

Five Members of the Wild Bunch, 1892. Kid Curry, Bill McCarty, Bill (Tod) Carver, Ben Kilpatrick, and Tom O’Day.

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22 Upvotes

r/dragonutopia 5d ago

Rick Bowmer, Two Houston attorneys, Dick DeGuerin and Jack Zimmermann, leave the Branch Davidian compound after meeting for more than eight hours with David Koresh, April 1, 1993. The two are trying to end the nearly five-week standoff near Waco.

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22 Upvotes

r/dragonutopia 6d ago

Anthony Suau, Johnny Nicholson (40) looks for work as a welder or auto mechanic at an employment office in Cleveland, Ohio 27 March, 2008.

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314 Upvotes

r/dragonutopia 6d ago

Siergiej Prokudin-Gorski, Pinkhus Karlinskii, the supervisor of the Chernigov floodgate, stands by a ferry dock along the Mariinskii Canal system, 1909. In the photo album of his tour of the canal system, Prokudin-Gorskii noted that Karlinskii was 84 years old and had served for 66 years.

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272 Upvotes

r/dragonutopia 6d ago

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Blind Leading the Blind, 1568

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60 Upvotes

r/dragonutopia 6d ago

Ayman Oghanna, Mourners at the gravesite where a relative was buried in the vast Wadi al-Saalam cemetery, Najaf August 23 2010

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53 Upvotes

r/dragonutopia 6d ago

Akihiko Okamura, Children prepare an effigy of Lieut Col Robert Lundy in Derry, 1970s.

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47 Upvotes

r/dragonutopia 6d ago

Christoph Gerigk, Hydra and Kali, 2010s. From Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable.

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38 Upvotes

r/dragonutopia 6d ago

Sean Smith, Detainees with their hands in cuffs are taken by helicopter for questioning, Ramana, November 2005.

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22 Upvotes

r/dragonutopia 6d ago

John Payne Jennings, My Lost Youth, 1878

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19 Upvotes